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Corey Taylor: What I Think About Bedroom Guitarists! | Slipknot // Stone Sour

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Channel: R&M News · 2018 · Music

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Corey Taylor was asked on Talk Is Jericho for his thoughts on bedroom guitarists, to which he replied, saying:

"They're excellent, but they're excellent in their room. Maybe that's enough for them.

"There's something to be said about the pleasure that you get just from playing the guitar by yourself and the pleasure that you get for being in front of a live audience.

"And [Stone Sour guitarist] Josh Rand is a perfect example of this.

"He was that guy - he didn't play his first show until he joined Stone Sour. He was just that guy that just loved writing music, loved playing guitar, loved jamming with people, but he just didn't know what he was missing.

"And then we played our first show and just... You wanna talk about throwing some shit at the addict - he is a monster now!

"He is like, 'We have to fucking play!'

"It's one of those things - sometimes you just never know what you're missing until you get in front of that and you're just like, 'Wow, this is palpable, this is good!'

"One of the things when I talk to with younger bands - I'm like, 'Get in front of a fu**in' audience and do it for real.'

"Don't YouTube it, don't fu**ing Vine it - which is not even a thing anymore - but get out there in front of the fu**in' audience and learn to do it.

"You can only practice so much before you have to apply it in that situation.

"And if you don't, you're just setting yourself up for sterile, very clinical, very flat fucking experience when you go in front of an audience, where you just get out there and allow yourself that room to make mistakes, to learn the craft, to cut your teeth.

"You're gonna learn how to think on your feet and never find yourself in a situation when you don't know what to do."

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